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Musical Brain -- Groks Science Show 2007-12-05

by Charles Lee and Frank Ling

Publication date 2007-12-05

Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

Topics science, music, neurobiology

Music has powerful emotive and expressive qualities that transcend its description as a purely physical phenomenon. This is of course due to how the brain processes musical information. On this program, Prof. Daniel Levitin discussed the musical brain.